The peacekeeping literature is plentiful with examples of analysis of the operations’ performance. These analyzes study the fulfillment of the mandate, or the effects on the host state. But few studies address the consequences ...

This article analyzes 1968 in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro, with the focus on the student movement. With the memoirs and testimonies of student leaders and the major daily newspapers (O Globo, Correio da manha, ...

We evaluate firms' compliance with required International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) disclosure in the first mandatory adoption year of IFRS in Brazil (2010), by comprehensively examining 638 disclosure required ...

This article examines a general proposition about democratic legislatures-that their agenda will be cartelized by any majority government-in the context of a case study of the Brazilian Câmara dos Deputados (Chamber of ...

Recent evaluations of how the Brazilian government’s primary surplus reacts to the evolution of the debt to GDP ratio convey two important (and worrisome) messages: first, the reaction function has been almost steadily ...

This project examines the effects of a president's coalition management decisions on associated governing costs in a multiparty system. A strategic president who is concerned about policy outcomes and about her various ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role played by the geographic distance between the poor and non-poor in the local demand for income redistribution and, in particular, to provide an empirical test ...

While most historians highlight North-North transatlantic alliances during the Second World War, bilateral or multilateral relationships including the south of the Ocean have received little scholarly attention. This article ...

Purpose: This paper aims to discuss, from a post-colonial perspective, the context and process of the Americanization of Brazilian management. Design/methodology/approach: The paper first briefly discusses post-colonialism ...

Certain international agencies propose that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) allows development to be reached more efficiently and quickly. While there are success stories galore, there is acknowledgement of ...

Moving into a new and foreign market can be challenging, especially when such market has a different culture and working environment in comparison to the home market. Thus, it is of utter importance to adjust a company’s ...

Objective: To analyze the health care costs specifically related to cardiovascular diseases, which were spent by patients of a private healthcare provider in southern Brazil, after their diagnosis of cancer. Method: We ...

Smoking habit seriously affects public health in a number of direct and indirect ways. The study reported here took place in Brazil and examined the promotional activities of the tobacco industry at the point of sale, with ...

Indigenous tourism does not yet figure on the agenda of public tourism policies in Brazil, neither is it regulated. There are, however, various tourism initiatives in indigenous areas throughout the country, mainly in the ...

This paper examines the value of analysts’ recommendations in Brazilian Stock Market. We studied a sample of 294 weeks of recommendations make public by the best seller newspaper in Brazil with six different investment ...

This work has the objective of presenting the main elements of the regulatory regime of natural gas in Brazil and in the United States. After describing both regimes, the work compares both regulatory systems, identifying ...

In the decades of 1980 and 1990, the tax reform proposals in several countries were reoriented to the reduction of tax on investment and savings, to the mitigation of the progressivity of the incometax on wages, and to the ...